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Lights Out and Stalled Factories: Using M.A.T.R.I.X to Learn About Modbus Vulnerabilities

May 06, 2025 | Karl Biron

Let’s explore the critical role of Modbus in energy and manufacturing systems, ...

Bring Your Own Installer: Bypassing EDR Through Agent Version Change Interruption

May 05, 2025 | John Ailes and Tim Mashni

Bring Your Own Installer is a technique which can be used by threat actors to ...

A Deep-Rooted Infestation: How the ILOVEYOU Bug Continues its Legacy in Modern Worms

May 02, 2025 | Pauline Bolaños

A quarter century ago, a former computer science student from the Philippines ...

Agent In the Middle – Abusing Agent Cards in the Agent-2-Agent (A2A) Protocol To ‘Win’ All the Tasks

April 21, 2025 | Tom Neaves

I think you’ll agree with me that growth in the AI landscape is pretty full-on ...

Pixel-Perfect Trap: The Surge of SVG-Borne Phishing Attacks

April 10, 2025 | Bernard Bautista and Kevin Adriano

Ever thought an image file could be part of a cyber threat? The LevelBlue ...

Fort Knox for Your Data: How Elasticsearch X-Pack Locks Down Your Cluster – Part 2

March 20, 2025 | Karl Biron

In Part 1 of Fort Knox for Your Data: How Elasticsearch X-Pack Locks Down Your ...

2025 Trustwave Risk Radar Report: Top Cyber Threats Targeting the Manufacturing Sector

February 26, 2025

2025 Trustwave Risk Radar Report Unveils Top Cyber Threats to Manufacturing: ...

Beyond the Chatbot: Meta Phishing with Fake Live Support

February 04, 2025 | Mike Casayuran and John Kevin Adriano

In a previous Trustwave SpiderLabs’ blog, we explored how cybercriminals ...

Cracking the Giant: How ODAT Challenges Oracle, the King of Databases

January 27, 2025 | Karl Biron

In the past decade, Oracle Database (Oracle DB) has reigned supreme in the ...

LevelBlue SpiderLabs 2025 Risk Radar Report: Energy and Utilities Sector

January 22, 2025

The energy sector plays a crucial role in national security by ensuring the ...

CVE-2024-55591: Fortinet FortiOS/FortiProxy Zero Day

January 14, 2025

In late November and December 2024, Arctic Wolf observed evidence of a mass ...

The State of Magecart: A Persistent Threat to E-Commerce Security

January 09, 2025 | Rodel Mendrez

Trustwave SpiderLabs first blogged about Magecart back in 2019; fast forward ...

Emerging Risks in Third-Party AI Solutions and How to Help Address Them

December 04, 2024 | Scott Swanson and Kris Kimmerle

As the cyber threat landscape changes due the introduction of new threat ...

Lessons from a Honeypot with US Citizens’ Data

November 13, 2024 | Radoslaw Zdonczyk and Nikita Kazymirskyi

Prior to last week’s US Presidential Election, the Trustwave SpiderLabs team ...

The Mounted Guest EDR Bypass

November 11, 2024 | Colin Meek

The Mounted Guest EDR Bypass is a tactic used in cyber attacks to evade ...

Hooked by the Call: A Deep Dive into The Tricks Used in Callback Phishing Emails

October 21, 2024 | Katrina Udquin

Introduction Previously, Trustwave SpiderLabs covered a massive fake order spam ...

How Threat Actors Conduct Election Interference Operations: An Overview

October 18, 2024 | Pauline Bolaños

The major headlines that arose from the three most recent US presidential ...

HTML Smuggling: How Blob URLs are Abused to Deliver Phishing Content

September 24, 2024 | Mike Casayuran

HTML smuggling techniques have been around for quite some time. A previous ...

Bypassing EDR through Retrosigned Drivers and System Time Manipulation

September 13, 2024 | Zachary Reichert

The Retrosigned Driver EDR Bypass is a novel modification of a technique ...

Distributed Denial of Truth (DDoT): The Mechanics of Influence Operations and The Weaponization of Social Media

September 13, 2024 | Jose Tozo

With the US election on the horizon, it’s a good time to explore the concept of ...

Exploring an Experimental Windows Kernel Rootkit in Rust

September 09, 2024

Around two years ago, memN0ps took the initiative to create one of the first ...

Hypervisor Development in Rust for Security Researchers (Part 1)

September 06, 2024

In the ever-evolving field of information security, curiosity and continuous ...

Deep Dive and Simulation of a MariaDB RCE Attack: CVE-2021-27928

August 16, 2024 | Karl Biron

In early 2021, a new vulnerability, identified as CVE-2021-27928, was ...

Cloudy with a Chance of Hackers: Protecting Critical Cloud Workloads

July 22, 2024 | David Broggy

If you've been following along with David's posts, you'll have noticed a ...

Responding to the CrowdStrike Outage: Implications for Cyber and Technology Professionals

July 19, 2024

This client alert provides an overview of the current global IT outage that is ...

Atlas Oil: The Consequences of a Ransomware Attack

June 25, 2024 | Arthur Erzberger

Overview Atlas Oil, a major player in the oil and fuel distribution industry, ...

Cyber Exterminators: Monitoring the Shop Floor with OT Security

June 03, 2024 | David Broggy

Pressure is increasing on manufacturers to monitor their shop floors for ...

Cracking Into Password Requirements

April 16, 2024 | Ethan Wilkins

This blog post discusses new hashcat rule sets designed to crack passwords with ...